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Tag Name "Grandfather" (354)

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To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word boo.
Robert Breault
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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
Ray Bradbury
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When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
Terry Pratchett
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My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.
Frank Ocean
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The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.
Desi Arnaz
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
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My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
Mickey Mantle
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
Yoko Ono
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My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
Gyorgy Ligeti
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Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.
Pat Conroy
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In a strange way, becoming a grandfather is like starting your life over.
Kenny Wallace
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My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
Benicio Del Toro
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Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.
Lydia M. Child
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I'm raspy, and if I wasn't a smoker, I'd still be raspy. My pops has a raspy voice, and my grandfather.
Jadakiss
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A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.'
Herman Cain
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My mother and grandmothers could never have lived my life my father and my grandfathers could never have imagined it. But they bestowed on me the promise of America, which made my life and my choices possible.
Hillary Clinton
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I think back, when I saw The Great Gatsby, the film, my grandfather probably helped supply all the alcohol to all these Southampton parties, back then.
Robert Davi
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My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.
Ed Droste
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I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
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My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.
Jessie Ware
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Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.
Black Elk
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In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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You don't have to be in Who's Who to know what's what.
Sam Levenson
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